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FORMER DIRECTOR general of Fás Rody Molloy resigned because he was given a €1 million “golden handshake”, a Dáil committee was told yesterday.

Responding to the chairman of the Dáil Committee on Public Accounts, Bernard Allen, an official from the Department of Finance, Tony Jordan, said the package negotiated for Mr Molloy was agreed to by his department.